Safety is paramount - now we all know that is not exactly true .... safety is an assessment of the risk or hazard of a particular action and application of affordable measures to reduce such risk or hazard to an acceptable level or exposure time.
The Aviation Advisor is there to impose his (or her) company's policies which in turn will reduce any possible litigation against said company by any employee after an unfortunate, dare I say the word, accident. This can lead to ex pilots and engineers, now turned advisor, losing all common-sense and imposing at times some of the most illogical, impractical practices in order to suggest they are doing their job overseeing us.
Africa has experienced many years where the customer was very happy to accept a cheaper aircraft and lower levels of safety because we jointly ignored any standards which may have been happening in the wider world in the interest of continuing to make exploration possible (in the eyes of the financiers).
Now Aviation Advisors out here are starting to ask "Why aren't these ac up to proper standard?" As if it is our fault alone! They dislike the accusation of lack of investment in safety. So we should embrace their current obscene profits, if not to line our own pockets
, then surely to renew ageing and obsolete equipments in which they now seem to want to invest!